Duplicating Pages & Posts

These features are available through the Duplicate Posts & Pages plugin, which needs to activated before first use.

To activate the plugin: From the WordPress dashboard, click Plugins in the left menu. Find Duplicate Posts & Pages in the list of plugins, and click Activate.

Cloning a page or post

1. Log into your site, and in the left menu click on the content type you are editing (Pages, Posts, Events, People, Places or Items).
2. Hover over the title of the page you wish to copy.
3. Underneath the title, click Clone or New Draft. Both actions create a draft copy of the selected page; however:
   • New Draft opens the copy for you to work on.
   • Clone simply adds the copy to your list of pages or posts without opening it.
4. If you will be publishing the new page, update the URL in the settings panel on the right. (When you duplicate a page, the new draft will have the original page URL appended with -2 since multiple pages cannot have the same URL.)

Rewrite and republish a page or post

One reason you might duplicate a page or post is to mock up changes to that page without immediately publishing them. This is especially helpful when the updates are large. In this case, you may want to use the Rewrite & Republish tool.

Rewrite & Republish makes a duplicate of the live content so you can stage changes in a separate draft. When you’re finished with the edits, the tool then republishes the edited content over the original page.

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